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Elizabeth Taylor is to be honored by the Los Angeles branch of the British Academy of Film and Television Arts in Hollywood on Nov. 10, when she is to receive its Britannia award for excellence, Agence France-Presse reported. Tom Cruise is to receive...

HIGHLIGHTS FILM: WELLESLEY REACTS -- Responding to criticism and other comments in e-mail messages, letters and phone calls from concerned alumnae reacting to the film ''Mona Lisa Smile,'' the president of Wellesley College has distributed a...

Caught in a narrow window of inactivity between very different projects -- ''Mona Lisa Smile,'' released here this month and on Friday in the United States, and ''Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire,'' which is to start filming in the next few months...

December 29, 2003, Monday

The credits were still rolling for ''Mona Lisa Smile,'' the new Mike Newell film set at Wellesley College in the mid-1950's, when Norma Solimene Raffaele, class of 1954, weighed in. ''If I were 18 and I saw this movie I'd never want to go there,''...

''You can bake your cake and eat it too!'' says the reassuring slogan that distills the comfy revisionist feminism informing ''Mona Lisa Smile.'' That slogan is repeated empathically enough to qualify as the defining mantra of a movie that pretends...

December 19, 2003, Friday

IN 1996, starved for a good movie at the end of a job so consuming that I hadn't seen the inside of a theater in months, I rushed off to the Quad and treated myself to back-to-back showings of Andre Techine's ''Voleurs'' (''Thieves'') and Claude...

''Pushing Tin'' betrays its origins as a magazine article (in The New York Times Magazine) with more atmosphere and data than built-in story. As it describes the stressful lives of air traffic controllers in the New York area, it makes no automatic...